THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

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XVI. NOTES



  1. About 40 kilometres south of Cairo, this was the
    oldest capital of Pharaonic Egypt. It has now been
    reduced to the status of a simple village.

  2. This is how Abba Theophilus is described by the
    French writer Pere Ch. d’Orleans in his book “Les
    Saints de l’Egypte.’ Vol. 11, p. 619.

  3. Ward-Perkins, Christian antiquities of the
    Cyrenaican Pentapolis. Pub. In Le Bulletin de la
    Societe d’archaeologie Copte. Tome ix (1943) pp.
    132-3.

  4. Matt. 3:13-15.

  5. W. Budge. Legends of Our Lady Mary the
    Perpetual Virgin and her Mother Hannah – including
    “The history of the Virgin Mary as told by Her to
    Theophilus Patriach of Alexandria.” (A. Folio 90al,
    Brit. Mus. Orient. No. 604, Fol. 5a and No. 605
    Fol. 162a) pp. 61-2; and “The narrative of the
    Virgin Mary as told by Herself to Timothy Patriach
    of Alexandria” (Brit. Museum Ms. Orient. No. 604
    Fol. 25b ff) p.99.

  6. In: Le Bulletin ... Tome VI (1940) pp. 161-7 in a
    reprinted article entitled “Les Monuments Coptes
    d’apres le Pere Michel Jullien.” The article had
    been written during his visit to Egypt in 1902. In it
    he asserts that the Copts never destroyed the age-
    old temples, but rather conserved them that they
    may transform them into churches.

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